<div dir="auto">Other question is definition of the good Desktop. Some people like me are using mostly the window manager to move things around desktop.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Other prefer more object centric I suppose environment and fully integrated i can't even explain what I mean by that </div><div dir="auto">But for example KDE like. You have icons, shortcuts, files on the desktop and can be equally manipulated. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I liked the roughness of the KDE 1 disliked the blandness of 2 and 3.5 was real jewel.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But that is in the past.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 28, 2020, 10:37 Steve Litt via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 10:22:35 -0500<br>
"James Sumners \(ALE\) via Ale" <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On October 18, 2020 at 07:42:39, Contact VPV via Ale (<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ale@ale.org</a>)<br>
> wrote: All,<br>
> <br>
> I have been using Linux Mint with Cinnamon Desktop for the past few<br>
> years as my daily driver. I am able to get most of the things. But<br>
> there are a few times the Cinnamon Desktop just freezes and crashes<br>
> while I am in the middle of some work. This kind of throws me off. I<br>
> have tried most of the tricks on the LM forums and nothing leads me<br>
> to a proper solution.<br>
<br>
Just playing a hunch: Do you have an nVidia graphics card? I had this<br>
problem with an nVidia, replaced it with a Radeon 5450 with 2GB RAM,<br>
and now I have no crashes or hangs.<br>
<br>
This happened on Void Linux. It also happened on System Rescue CD<br>
booted to the DVD drive.<br>
<br>
SteveT<br>
<br>
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